Adventures and observations of an everyday goddess in La La Land.

February 26, 2009

Democrats, Republicans, and the hands in our pockets.

The stimulus package is going to cost America a lot of money. And yeah, I've got some concerns about various aspects of it. But what's really been turning my stomach lately is the absurdly disingenuous response of Republican politicians and pundits.

Why is it OK to spend extreme amounts of money we don't have on Iraq, but not OK to spend extreme amounts of money we don't have on America?

Well, differing political philosophies about the role of government, of course. And I get that. And I've got various opinions on that.

But I've completely had it with Republicans acting like OMG! The Democrats want to take our money and spend it!

Because yes, you're right, they do want to take my money and spend it. AND SO DO YOU FUCKERS AND AT SIMILARLY ABSURD LEVELS.

The only difference is where they each think it's OK to spend it. And it's just effing crazy for Republicans who have been authorizing an expensive war for years now to somehow pretzel themselves around and start crying about Democratic expenditures. It's pathetic and disgusting and ridiculous.

Further, the Republicans are freaking out because they think that President Obama is heading America towards socialism. And I can understand why that is scary to them. I understand how that is against their economic and political theories.

I JUST SPENT THE LAST EIGHT YEARS WATCHING AMERICA SLIDE TOWARDS FASCISM, THANKS.

Maybe you disagree with me, but if you are one who is worried about socialism, welcome to a lighter version of what it's been feeling like for the other half of us for AGES now. You've been trying to take my damn RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS away. You've been trying to legislate what I can do with my body.

Despite all evidence to the contrary, there are people in this country who think America is a Christian nation. Who have no respect for the separation of church and state that our country was bloody FOUNDED ON.

North Dakota (a state with exactly one place you can get an abortion, btw) is on the path to give a bunch of cells HUMAN RIGHTS! We are literally a blink away from some sci-fi tale of the fascist monitoring of women who are under the state's control whenever they become pregnant.

You may disagree with my fears. You may have different philosophies and theories. President Obama and the Democrats have different philosophies and theories from President Bush and the Republicans. That's what it is. That's what it comes down to.

And the... can't find the word... opposition technique of acting like the sky is falling and the Democrats are the ones who just want to spend all our money? I feel like the Republicans are demanding that I believe that the Emperor is wearing clothes. Suddenly spending billions and trillions of dollars is bad, you say?

We have a new President and a Democratic-leaning congress. So now we're going to try it a different way. Now things are going to swing the other way for awhile. That's how America works, like it or not.

You could maybe even say, a little less fascism today and a little more socialism. With any luck, I'm not going to wake up tomorrow in the next Communist Romania and Republicans aren't going to wake up in the next Canada or England, since that prospect is seemingly so terrifying to them.

Republicans: Yes, it's a lot of money, and we can argue about particulars. But don't act like you care about the spending levels, because clearly you don't and never did when it's spent on what you want.

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Here is what I know about Republican rule during my lifetime.

When Republicans are in office we have higher unemployment rates, more people in poverty, small businesses are more likely to fail, big businesses are more likely to outsource and do well, the middle class shrinks, extreme fantastical reactions to the drug epidemic and crime make crime rates rise and drug use soar, the prison industrial complex grows stronger and stronger as an oppressive entity, there is less focus on rehabilitation, mentally ill people who are not from wealthy families (families with slave ownership in their past or new money) become homeless, homelessness reaches an all time new height...

So I say it is time to call out the Reaganomic V.3 robots on their extreme fiscal irresponsibility. It's time to call out the "mind your own business" unconscious, greedy war mongers who think SS and Healthy care should be or remain privatized. Do they also want to make the Fire and Police Dept. privatized again?
No, of course not, that would be absurd.

The double talk and new speak they employ is astounding. They are master spinners able to tell the exact opposite of what is actually happening and have it heard as truth.

The members of the GOP seem to have read 1984 and Handmaids tale as instructional manuals instead of as the cautionary dis-topian tales they are.

I for one am tired of them and while I am glad to have hope in office, I think Obama is catering to them more than is necessary.

Long rant by the woman who survived Detroit, during the Reagan years, over.

Clearly all politicians are in MHO disingenuous. And obivously the response of Republican politicians is extreme and that's because they have nothing worth to offer to salvage their weak political position. They got us here and there is no easy cure. At least there is some attempt to try something to remedy what they created in the last administration.